Evolving the Psychological Mechanisms for Cooperation

By Jeffrey R. Stevens, Fiery Cushman, Marc D. Hauser. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science

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Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favours (2008, background): “Noting the lack of solid experimental demonstrations of reciprocal altruism, Stevens & Hauser (2004) and Stevens et al. (2005) suggested that initial papers on the subject may have underestimated the basic cognitive abilities that are necessary for reciprocal altruism: mechanisms that may be lacki”
Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism (2007, background): “Most apparent examples of reciprocity identified by field research now appear to be better explained by kinship or mutual benefits (Connor 1995; Stevens et al. 2005).”
The influence of social experience on cooperative behaviour of rats (Rattus norvegicus): direct vs generalised reciprocity (2008, background): “This may be one important reason that evidence for direct reciprocity in animals is much more limited than expected from theoretical considerations (Stevens et al. 2005).”
Reciprocity and conditional cooperation between great tit parents (2014, background): “to cognitive limitations such as temporal discounting and limited memory (Wilkinson 1984; Stevens and Hauser 2004; Stevens et al. 2005; West et al. 2007; Krams et al. 2008; Clutton-Brock 2009; Schino and Aureli 2009; Cheney et al. 2010), our goal in this article is to argue that a simple form of c”
Mechanisms of reciprocity in primates: testing for short-term contingency of grooming and food sharing in bonobos and chimpanzees (2013, background): “Further 457 expressions of tension surrounding monopolizable food may be the significantly lower success 458 rates and higher levels of aggressive reactions to food requests found among the bonobos in this 459 study and indeed the relatively high levels of aggression and oftentimes strong dominance ”
Chapter 2 Reciprocal Altruism in Primates (2009, background): “…there is some evidence that within‐species variation in the tendency to groom up the hierarchy is positively related to the steepness of the dominance hierarchy and negatively related to the tendency to reciprocate grooming (Barrett et al., 1999; Schino and Aureli, 2008b; Stevens et al., 2005a).”